Sextuplets and Higher Multiparous Births: A critical review of history and legend from Aristoteles to the 20th century

Abstract

Though conception and reproduction have been favorite topics of the biologists of all ages many of the simplest facts of generation are still lacking their proper explanation. They remained mysteries and stimulated wild speculations not only among the uneducated people but also among the physicians, naturalists and others engaged in the scrutiny of Nature.